NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...